2024-07-05 09:48:18
Through several portraits of employees as cheerful as they are inspiring, LVMH reveals its vision of a culture “fundamentally different and inclusive by choice“. It’s everybody’s business It is an exclusive series that highlights the Group’s support in the professional and sometimes personal development of its talents, regardless of their uniqueness. Because… it’s everyone’s business!
With more than 190 nationalities, 4 generations and a presence in more than 80 countries, the Group is fundamentally multicultural. This diversity and mix of perspectives is a strong vector of creativity and performance.
Under the prism of diversity, inclusion and equity, each story immerses the viewer in a singular vision and openness to the world as experienced within the Group. Strong positive voices that resonate with all LVMH employees.
Episode 11: “In the environment I grew up in, there was a lot of injustice and maybe that’s why I’m passionate about gender diversity” — Yoyo Chung
Yoyo Chung, Senior Director of Executive Training and Development at LVMH explains to us how she uses her experience, skills and strength to support female executives and enable them to develop their capacity for personal advancement and confidence find more in them. To support this objective, Yoyo has developed a biannual professional development program.
Episode 10: “Diversity is an essential value of my career and it matters. I implement it myself, I have a very diverse team. It allows new products to be created but above all communication can be seen from a new angle. » —Olivier Hann
In this episode, Olivier Hann, Marketing Director of skincare and Spas for the House of Dior, shares with us his approach and vision for diversity within his team at Dior. He looks back on his personal journey by openly addressing the subject of his homosexuality. Olivier insists that diversity is a fundamental value of his profession, which he takes care to implement by ensuring that he creates a very diverse team, which allows him to generate new products and think about communication with a different perspective.
Episode 9: “Diversity is just a fact – we are different from each other. Inclusion is a voluntary act. You have to have this will to take the extra step towards the other” – Mohamed Marfouk
In this new opus, Mohamed Marfouk, Director of Operations for the LVMH group, shares his experience of diversity with us and looks back on his journey, from his youth in Morocco. He explains to us how embracing diversity, whether cultural or physical, is a gain for the company, and emphasizes the importance of having people with multiple origins and multiple sensitivities within teams, especially in a group like LVMH.
Episode 8: “I can listen to him and promote this change” – Sarah Curtis Henry
As an African-American woman, Sarah Curtis Henry became aware very quickly of her difference and the segregation that existed in society. Today as Chief Commercial Officer of North America at Parfums Christian Dior, she tells us in this episode how this allows her to bring her own perspective and speak meaningfully to an increasingly diverse consumer.
Episode 7: “It’s not about expressing differences it’s about connecting with people and not being isolated” – Danni Yang
Danni Yang, Retail Management Trainee at Louis Vuitton, tells us how the Group’s reverse mentoring program allows for equality within the company, encouraging people to voice their opinions, regardless of their position. Coming from Chinese culture, Danni talks about the sense of diversity she feels at LVMH and which has given her the opportunity to express herself as a person, beyond her background and culture.
Episode 6: “This job makes us grow human, through encounters” – Charlotte Puissant
In this new episode, Charlotte Puissant, who was Mistress of the House at a white horse Courchevel, who is now Director of Apartments at Cheval Blanc Paris, tells us how the diversity of origins, both from the point of view of employees and customers, creates moments of exchange and transmission every day around discovering new cultures. Charlotte looks back on how this job made her grow as a person and gave her an open mind which she shares and transmits to her family on a daily basis.
Episode 5: “I knew I had to find my place, a place where I felt at home” — Randy Baran
Randy Baran, Head of Talent, Development & Engagement at Christian Dior Couture Americas, talks about the struggles faced by people belonging to the LGBTQ+ community and the Group’s role in the evolution of their rights. He, who joined LVMH in 2017, looks forward to his first participation in the Pride parade wearing the Group’s colors, an event that helps give greater visibility to LVMH’s inclusive culture.
Episode 4: “I owe this transmission of love to the world to my father and grandfather” – Toni El Khawand
In this new episode, Toni El Khawand, Cellar Master of Château d’Yquem talks to us about “transmission power“you”respect for traditions“. Born and raised in Lebanon, Toni looks back on the unique relationship he shared with his grandfather – who instilled in him his love of the land – and how this connection influences his career and respect he has the tradition and know-how of Bordeaux.
Episode 3: “Your name is important. You have to protect it yourself. » — Pareesa Nikpourfard
In this episode, Director of Talent, Development and Engagement at the House of Dior in New York, Pareesa Nikpourfard tells us how a significant event in her life changed her perception of her difference. A first-generation Iranian, she learned to embrace their culture in an environment different from her own, which left her full of kindness and compassion, qualities she puts at the service of her colleagues on a daily basis.
Episode 2: “I wanted to meet women I could identify with” — Léa Baudin
Léa joined the Group in 2013 within Guerlain and, a few years later, won the LVMH DARE intramural program with a project that reflects her convictions: SHERO, a platform forfemale empowerment. Today Marketing Director at Benefit France, in this program she tells us about her personal and professional evolution in a Group that values the uniqueness of its employees.
Episode 1: “You Can’t Be What You Don’t Know” — Rodney Pratt
Today, Director of Legal Affairs for the North American zone at LVMH, Rodney emphasizes thethe importance of representation. He talks about how his roots influence his daily decisions and allow him to be an agent of change in his community and beyond.
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